Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Stepping westward seemed to be/ A kind of heavenly destiny.

Gilbert Arenas

Our focus is just like tonight. We know they are going to be resting their guys, but we can't lay down for that because we need that win. This is our destiny and we have it in our hands. So If we want to get the fifth spot, we have to go out there and play like it.

Mike Ditka

Pittsburgh may be a team of destiny. They find a way to get it done.

Bill Engvall

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.

C. S. Lewis

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C. S. Lewis

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Mike Eaves

I think destiny is preparation meeting opportunity, but there's an X-factor that's uncontrollable, and maybe that X-factor was being here in Wisconsin. But we worked hard. We prepared ourselves for this opportunity.

Bill Vaughan

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Bill Vaughan

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?

Herbert Marcuse

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Francis Picabia

The future is a monotonous instrument

Asafa Powell

People have been saying that there might be a curse stopping me from getting my first major title, but I have proven to the world that I can do it. This might sound a little shocking, but we were not really training for this.

Anthony Daniels

Listen to them, they're dying, R2. Curse my metal body. I wasn't fast enough. It's all my fault. My poor master.

Mark Cuban

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

African Proverbs

It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal

Shaun White

I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I didn't really want to come. I was nervous because last time I hurt my knee when I was here. ... To overcome all that, and to actually win it, it's insane.

Tommy Bowden

I didn't do anything different ... So I think the (Thursday night) curse will eventually turn.

Larry Brown

I didn't curse him. I hadn't talked to him the whole game. Obviously he thought I went over the line and that's his prerogative. Those things happen. It's the first game I got kicked out.

Nick Green

I don't know what's happening. Maybe we're cursed or something.

Mike Young

He just cursed at me and was yelling, 'Get away ... save me, Jesus. At that point, he was lying on his stomach and kept trying to roll into the road.